Liberation ecologies : environment, development, social movements / / edited by Richard Peet and Michael Watts

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Disciplina: 304.2
• Soggetto topico: Human ecology - Developing countries; Economic development - Environmental aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Classificazione: 83.46
• Altri autori: PeetRichard WattsMichael
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Liberating political ecology / Michael Watts and Richard Peet -- The political ecology of famine : the origins of the Third World / Mike Davis -- Invisible forests : the political ecology of forest resurgence in El Salvador / Susanna B. Hecht -- Environmental discourses on soil degradation in Bolivia : sustainability and the search for socioenvironmental "middle ground" / Karl S. Zimmerer -- Purity and pollution : racial degradation and environmental anxieties / Jake Kosek -- Eco-governmentality and other transnational practices of a "green" World Bank / Michael Goldman -- Nature-state-territory : toward a critical theorization of conversation enclosures / Roderick P. Neumann -- Water, markets, and embedded institutions in Western India / Navroz K. Dubash -- Transition environments : ecological and social challenges to post-socialist industrial development / Dara O'Rourke -- Violent environments : petroleum conflict and the political ecology of rule in the Niger Delta, Nigeria / Michael Watts -- Gender and class power in agroforestry systems : case studies from Indonesia and West Africa / Richard A. Schroeder and Krisnawati Suryanata -- Gender conflict in Gambian wetlands / Judith Carney -- Environment, indigeneity and transnationalism / Tania Murray Li -- From Chipko to Uttaranchal : the environment of protest and development in the Indian Himalaya / Haripriya Rangan -- Movements and modernizations, markets and municipalities : indigenous federations in rural Ecuador / Anthony Bebbington -- Industrial pollution and social movements in Thailand / Tim Forsyth.
• Sommario/riassunto: Liberation Ecologies elaborates a political-economic explanation of environmental crisis, drawing from the most recent advances in social theory.
• Titolo autorizzato: Liberation ecologies
• ISBN: 1-134-38294-4; 9786610241279; 1-280-24127-6; 0-203-23509-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457584403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II